Wayne W Welch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1584164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wayne W Welch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wayne W |
| FAMILY NAME | Welch |
| SIGNATURE | WELCH W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Syntheses of educational productivity research
The Effects of Schooling on Mathematics Achievement
Using data drawn from the 1977–1978 National Assessment of Educational Progress in mathematics, this study examined the proportion of variance in mathematics achievement attributable to differences in the number of semesters of mathematics studied after taking into account the influence of antecedent conditions, home and community environment, and previous mathematics learning. Background variables accounted for 25 percent of the variance, while …
Toward Accountability in Educational Research
This paper describes the nature of research activity in the College of Education at the University of Minnesota, a college that has ranked high on several studies of research productivity (Higgins, 1968; Walberg, 1971). But the reasons for examining the research activity are much broader. This information was needed by the Office of Educational Research, Planning and Development to provide a basis for college research planning, to help stimulate …
A National Experiment in Curriculum Evaluation
Although the need for true experiments on broadly defined populations has long been recognized, there are very few local experiments and no national experiments in curriculum research. For example, among 46 government-sponsored course development projects in science and mathematics, a few relied on teacher reports and classroom visits for evaluation, but only four used true experiments in their evaluation strategies (Welch, 1969). The purpose of …
An evaluation of community school organization
A perennial problem in public school organization is the inadequacy of adoption-diffusion models. Of course, as the literature indicates, the problem is endemic to all large-scale bureaucracies, but for education, and especially for urban school systems, it is a major stumblingblock in the path to institutional self-revitalization. The late Professor Paul Mort of Columbia University estimated the time lag at 50 years between the generation of a s…
Pretest and Sensitization Effects in Curriculum Evaluation
The recent flurry of curriculum development activity sponsored in large part by the federal government has spawned a rapidly growing field of curriculum evaluation. Many evaluation studies rely on traditional research design procedures where the new curriculum (often called experimental) is compared to one that presently exists (usually referred to as traditional) on a set of selected criteria. Often the evaluators administer the criterion measur…
Curriculum Effects on the Social Climate of Learning
A primary goal of educational research has been to establish the conditions for effective learning in school classes. Much of such research has focused on classroom interaction in one form or another (See reviews by Medley and Mitzel, Remmers, and Withall and Lewis in Gage, 1963). We have probed this problem further by relating the perceived social climate to cognitive, affective, and behavioral learning (Anderson, 1968; Anderson and Walberg, 196…
The Effects of Schooling on Mathematics Achievement
Using data drawn from the 1977–1978 National Assessment of Educational Progress in mathematics, this study examined the proportion of variance in mathematics achievement attributable to differences in the number of semesters of mathematics studied after taking into account the influence of antecedent conditions, home and community environment, and previous mathematics learning. Background variables accounted for 25 percent of the variance, while …
Curriculum Effects on the Social Climate of Learning
A primary goal of educational research has been to establish the conditions for effective learning in school classes. Much of such research has focused on classroom interaction in one form or another (See reviews by Medley and Mitzel, Remmers, and Withall and Lewis in Gage, 1963). We have probed this problem further by relating the perceived social climate to cognitive, affective, and behavioral learning (Anderson, 1968; Anderson and Walberg, 196…
Pretest and Sensitization Effects in Curriculum Evaluation
The recent flurry of curriculum development activity sponsored in large part by the federal government has spawned a rapidly growing field of curriculum evaluation. Many evaluation studies rely on traditional research design procedures where the new curriculum (often called experimental) is compared to one that presently exists (usually referred to as traditional) on a set of selected criteria. Often the evaluators administer the criterion measur…
A National Experiment in Curriculum Evaluation
Although the need for true experiments on broadly defined populations has long been recognized, there are very few local experiments and no national experiments in curriculum research. For example, among 46 government-sponsored course development projects in science and mathematics, a few relied on teacher reports and classroom visits for evaluation, but only four used true experiments in their evaluation strategies (Welch, 1969). The purpose of …
Curriculum Effects on the Social Climate of Learning
A primary goal of educational research has been to establish the conditions for effective learning in school classes. Much of such research has focused on classroom interaction in one form or another (See reviews by Medley and Mitzel, Remmers, and Withall and Lewis in Gage, 1963). We have probed this problem further by relating the perceived social climate to cognitive, affective, and behavioral learning (Anderson, 1968; Anderson and Walberg, 196…
Pretest and Sensitization Effects in Curriculum Evaluation
The recent flurry of curriculum development activity sponsored in large part by the federal government has spawned a rapidly growing field of curriculum evaluation. Many evaluation studies rely on traditional research design procedures where the new curriculum (often called experimental) is compared to one that presently exists (usually referred to as traditional) on a set of selected criteria. Often the evaluators administer the criterion measur…
Toward Accountability in Educational Research
This paper describes the nature of research activity in the College of Education at the University of Minnesota, a college that has ranked high on several studies of research productivity (Higgins, 1968; Walberg, 1971). But the reasons for examining the research activity are much broader. This information was needed by the Office of Educational Research, Planning and Development to provide a basis for college research planning, to help stimulate …
A National Experiment in Curriculum Evaluation
Although the need for true experiments on broadly defined populations has long been recognized, there are very few local experiments and no national experiments in curriculum research. For example, among 46 government-sponsored course development projects in science and mathematics, a few relied on teacher reports and classroom visits for evaluation, but only four used true experiments in their evaluation strategies (Welch, 1969). The purpose of …
An evaluation of community school organization
A perennial problem in public school organization is the inadequacy of adoption-diffusion models. Of course, as the literature indicates, the problem is endemic to all large-scale bureaucracies, but for education, and especially for urban school systems, it is a major stumblingblock in the path to institutional self-revitalization. The late Professor Paul Mort of Columbia University estimated the time lag at 50 years between the generation of a s…
The Effects of Schooling on Mathematics Achievement
Using data drawn from the 1977–1978 National Assessment of Educational Progress in mathematics, this study examined the proportion of variance in mathematics achievement attributable to differences in the number of semesters of mathematics studied after taking into account the influence of antecedent conditions, home and community environment, and previous mathematics learning. Background variables accounted for 25 percent of the variance, while …
Syntheses of educational productivity research
Mathematics education (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Curriculum (3 works) · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes (3 works) · Educational research (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)